Vasti Jackson (pronounced Vast-eye) (born October 20, 1959)[1] is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.

[3] Also in 1993, Jackson's self-penned track, ""Let the Juke Joint Jump" was covered on Koko Taylor's album, Force of Nature.

[9] Jackson turned his hand to record production in 2000, with co-production credits on the Bobby Rush album, Hoochie Man, which was nominated for a Grammy Award the following year.

[11] The following year, Jackson was one of the performers in Warming by the Devil's Fire, one of the film documentaries in the series, The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese.

[1] Woman Thou Art Loosed was a 2004 American drama film directed by Michael Schultz and written by Stan Foster.

[3] His next album, New Orleans, Rhythm Soul Blues, was released in 2013, before he was appointed in July the following year as a cultural ambassador for Mississippi.

Two months later he was one of the star performers at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia, in the year he was also named as the Albert King Lifetime Guitar Award recipient.

In April 2016, Jackson was a featured performer at the opening of the National Blues Museum, and played in July at the Porretta Soul Festival in Italy[3] His own, The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers, album was issued by CD Baby, which celebrated Jackson's appreciation of the influence of Jimmie Rodgers on the history of American music.